Thursday, February 10, 2005

Suenos Dulces

Dreamdeath

in a saffron sari
and a lime-green leotard,
came death;
her great, dark eyes
agleam with terrible passion.

we made
an unearthly tumult
of love.

she laughed easily,
snored and slept
fitfully at my side;
snatches of her disturbed
dream conversation
clawed me regularly.

time and light bent there
in that wet, warm web;
my penchant for exactitude
in recollection
gone impotent.

all in all
a sensate swoon
that endured...
nine months?
ninety-some-odd moons?
a few decades?

the burial blow:
her well turned back
turned to me eternally.

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